10 Best Influencer Marketing APIs in 2026, Priced per Profile

TL;DR

• The short answer: Tokfluence for TikTok creator search inside your own product, CreatorDB for the cheapest published multi-platform index, Phyllo when creators will log in and share first-party data, and a scraper like ScrapeCreators or EnsembleData when you only need raw public stats.
• The spread is wide. Per 1,000 profiles: about $2 on a scraper, $9.80 on the Tokfluence API ($9.95 on Agency, with the app and MCP server included), $20 to $50 on CreatorDB, and $230 or more for full enrichment on Influencers.club. Every number below shows the maths.
• Three of the ten will not quote a price. Phyllo, Upfluence and HypeAuditor are sales-led. Modash publishes an annual floor ($10,000 to $16,200) but not the allowance, so its per-profile cost cannot be worked out either.
• What only Tokfluence does: when the index is thin for a niche, a live TikTok crawl can be started on demand (through our MCP server, 250 credits), and the new creators become searchable a few hours later. Every other index here only serves what it already holds.
• The caveat: we sell one of these. Prices come from each vendor's own pages (14 October 2026) and assume you use the whole allowance. Read the "not for you if" line under each entry, including ours.

Search for "influencer API" and the results are vendor product pages, plus roundups written by vendors, one of which puts its own product first. None of them do the one sum a developer actually needs before a procurement call: what does a single creator profile cost?

So that is what this page does. Ten APIs, grouped by how they get their data, with the published price turned into a cost per profile and the arithmetic written out so you can check it.

What kinds of influencer marketing API are there?

Three, and you should only compare prices inside a group, because they return very different things.

1. Consent-based APIs. The creator logs in through an OAuth flow and authorises your app. You get first-party data the platform does not show publicly, like real audience demographics and private post insights. You only get it for creators who opt in. Phyllo is the main example.
2. Index APIs. The vendor has already collected millions of public profiles into a database and lets you search it by filters: niche, follower range, engagement, country, contact availability. This is the only group that does real creator discovery. Modash, HypeAuditor, Upfluence, Influencers.club, CreatorDB and Tokfluence sit here.
3. Scraper APIs. You send a handle or a URL and the vendor fetches the public page live. Cheap per call and always current, but you have to already know who you are looking for. There is no "find me UK skincare creators with 10k to 50k followers" query. EnsembleData, ScrapeCreators and Apify actors sit here.

A fourth option, TikTok's own APIs, gets its own section below, because for most commercial products it is not actually an option.

The 10 best influencer marketing APIs compared

Prices read from each vendor's own pricing or API page on 14 October 2026, and tokfluence.com/pricing on 15 October 2026. Sources are linked under each entry. "Not computable" means the vendor publishes no price, or no allowance to divide it by. Every figure assumes you use the whole allowance.

Two things the table makes obvious. First, scrapers are cheaper per full profile than most indexes, and the reason is that they skip the expensive part, which is collecting and keeping millions of creators searchable. Second, among indexes that publish a price, the per-1,000 column runs from $9.80 on Tokfluence to $20 to $50 on CreatorDB and $230 or more on Influencers.club. Influencers.club also sells discovery rows at 0.01 credit (about $2.30 per 1,000), but a discovery row is not a full profile, so it is not in that comparison.

The 10 APIs, one by one

1. Tokfluence

Best for TikTok creator search inside your own product.

Our own API, and the only index on this list built TikTok-first. It searches the same index that powers the Tokfluence app, more than 15 million TikTok creators, with filters for follower range, engagement rate, region, hashtags, mentions, verified status and whether a public email or phone is on file. Contact details come back in the search response itself, with no separate paid "reveal" call (creators reference). There is also a semantic search endpoint that turns a plain-language brief into filters.

Pricing is simple: one credit is one profile (pricing). The API-only Growth plan is $49 a month for 5,000 profile credits, so $49 / 5,000 = $0.0098 per profile, or $9.80 per 1,000. The API-only Pro plan is $99 for 10,000, so $99 / 10,000 = $0.0099, or $9.90 per 1,000. What you are buying is volume: 5,000 to 10,000 profiles a month, contact details included, at the lowest published per-profile price of any index in this table. The API is billed separately from the app subscription. Full details, endpoints and fields are on the Tokfluence TikTok API page.

The main difference: live crawling on demand. Every other index in this table can only return creators it already holds. If ours is thin for your niche, a live crawl of TikTok can be started on demand for the hashtags those creators use, and the new creators join the same searchable index a few hours later. Today crawls are started through our MCP server and cost 250 credits from the same balance (MCP docs).

Every call lands in a per-key ledger with its credit cost, so you can reconcile spend from your own logs.

The same index is also exposed as a hosted MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or another MCP client can search creators and build a shortlist in conversation (MCP docs). It comes with the Agency plan, $199 a month for 20,000 credits shared between the app, the API and the MCP ($199 / 20,000 x 1,000 = $9.95 per 1,000 profiles), and with our Discovery Service at $499 for 100,000 credits, where our team runs the searches for you. We compared it with the other TikTok MCP servers separately.

Not for you if: you need deep Instagram audience data from the same API, or you need every record refreshed recently. We say this in our own docs: for creators with 1,000 to 10,000 followers, the median one was last analysed about a year ago (FAQ). You can filter on analyzed_within_days or pull a creator's live posts on demand, but a scraper is fresher for a creator you already know. And if you need a few hundred profiles once, a monthly plan is the wrong shape: CreatorDB's pay-as-you-go, from $40, fits better. We are also unofficial: like the scrapers below, the data comes from public TikTok pages, not a TikTok partnership. For needs the plans do not cover, such as on-demand Instagram crawling, we build custom plans: contact us.

2. Phyllo

Best for apps where creators log in and share their own data.

Phyllo is the consent-based option. Its "Authenticated APIs" use a Linkage SDK that connects a creator's social accounts to your app, which unlocks first-party data the creator authorises: the numbers they see in their own analytics, not estimates. It also sells "Public APIs" that need no connection, including a public Creator Search across "470M+" profiles on "25+" platforms, and it now advertises MCP support so AI assistants can query it (Phyllo, checked 16 October 2026). Its developer docs link to InsightIQ, which sells the public creator data side.

Pricing is not published. The pricing page offers "customized plans" and a quote form, with a free sandbox to test the integration (pricing). So no per-profile figure.

When Phyllo is the better pick, including over us: if you are building a creator marketplace, a creator payments tool or a brand portal where creators want to share verified stats to get paid or get booked. Estimated audience data from any index is a model. Consented data is the real thing, and no index or scraper can give it to you.

Not for you if: you want to price creator search before a sales call. The public search is sold on the same quote-only basis, and the first-party data, which is Phyllo's real edge, only exists for creators who opt in.

3. Modash

Best for funded products that need Instagram, TikTok and YouTube in one API.

Modash sells two APIs: a Discovery API to search and filter its index of "380M+" profiles, and a Raw API that fetches "live, unfiltered data" from social accounts (API pricing). Credits are clearly priced per action: a search is 0.01 credits, a full influencer report is 1, an audience report is 1, and failed requests are not charged.

What is not published is how many credits a plan includes. The floor is $16,200 a year for Discovery and $10,000 a year for Raw, and "we currently don't offer any monthly or pay-as-you-go plans" (same page). Without the allowance you cannot divide one by the other, so we have not.

Not for you if: you are pre-revenue or testing an idea. A $10,000 annual minimum is a commitment, not an experiment. If you are weighing their app rather than the API, we compared that in Modash alternatives.

4. Influencers.club

Best for enriching handles you already have, across many networks.

An index of "340M+" creators across "47 platforms", with discovery, lookalikes and enrichment by handle or by email (pricing). API access starts on the Pro plan, "starting from $208/month". A full enrichment costs 1 credit, a raw enrichment 0.03, and a discovery result 0.01. Credits roll over.

The page gives a best case of "as low as $0.23" per credit, so a full profile costs at least $0.23. It does not say how many credits the $208 plan includes, so the entry-level figure is higher than that and we cannot state it exactly. A discovery row works out to roughly 0.01 x $0.23 = $0.0023.

Not for you if: you mostly need full profiles at volume. At $0.23 or more each, 10,000 full profiles is $2,300 or more.

5. CreatorDB

Best for the cheapest published multi-platform index.

An index of "30M+" YouTube, Instagram and TikTok creators with filtered and natural-language search, and the clearest public price list in the index group (pricing). Pro is $79 for 3,160 credits, so $79 / 3,160 = $0.025 per credit. A profile is 2 credits, so $0.05 per profile. The Enterprise tier at $749 for 74,900 credits brings that to $0.01 x 2 = $0.02. There is also pay-as-you-go from a $40 minimum.

Not for you if: you need the widest coverage. 30 million creators across three networks is a fraction of the 340 to 380 million that Influencers.club and Modash claim, so run a few pay-as-you-go searches in your niche before you commit.

6. Upfluence

Best for teams already running campaigns in Upfluence.

An index of "14M+ vetted creator profiles" with a /v1/creators/search endpoint and niche and platform parameters (API page). It prices in tokens: "500 search results cost 1 token, 5 full creator profiles cost 1 token", so a full profile is 0.2 tokens. The token price is not published, and the platform is "custom-quoted" (pricing).

Not for you if: you want to price the integration before a sales call.

7. HypeAuditor

Best for the widest platform list in the index group, including X and Twitch.

An index of "227.3M+" accounts across Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube and Twitch, sold as several APIs: Influencer Discovery, Reports, Market Analysis and Campaign Management (API page). API pricing is "request demo" only.

Not for you if: you need a self-serve plan. For reference only, its separate MCP server bills AI credits at $0.005 each, with an analysed account at 100 credits, or $0.50 (MCP). That is not the API price, but it shows the order of magnitude for a full audience report.

8. EnsembleData

Best for raw public data at a steady daily volume.

A live scraper API across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Reddit, Twitch, Twitter and Snapchat that states it uses only public data "without using fake accounts" (pricing). Plans are sold in daily units that reset at midnight UTC: the Wood plan is $100 a month for 1,500 units a day, or 45,000 a month. A TikTok user info call is 1 unit, so $100 / 45,000 = $0.0022 per profile. An Instagram detailed profile is 10 units, so ten times that. There is a free tier of 50 units a day with no card.

Not for you if: your usage is spiky. Daily units do not carry over, so a quiet week is money spent on nothing. And there is no filtered creator search.

9. ScrapeCreators

Best for prototypes and bursty usage.

A real-time scraper across "38+" platforms and endpoints, with a TikTok "Search Users" endpoint (ScrapeCreators). Pricing is one-off credit packs rather than a subscription: $47 for 25,000 credits, $497 for 500,000, and "credits never expire". A TikTok profile is 1 credit, so $47 / 25,000 = $0.0019 per profile, or $497 / 500,000 = $0.00099 at volume. A free tier of 100 credits is enough to test the response shape.

When a scraper is the better pick, including over us: you already know the handles. If your product tracks a fixed roster, enriches creators users paste in, or refreshes stats on accounts you signed, paying for an index is paying for discovery you will not use. A scraper is fresher and cheaper for that job.

Not for you if: the job is finding creators. User search matches names, with no audience, engagement or location filters.

10. Apify (clockworks TikTok actors)

Best for no-code pipelines and one-off pulls.

Apify is a marketplace of scrapers ("actors") with a platform plan on top. The most-used TikTok actors are published by clockworks, a third party rather than Apify itself. The profile scraper costs $0.003 per result on the free tier and $0.002 on the Bronze tier (profile scraper), and the free platform tier includes $5 of monthly usage, which at $0.003 covers about 1,666 profiles (Apify pricing). The broader TikTok scraper accepts keywords and hashtags, which gets you closer to discovery, but with no audience or location filters (TikTok scraper).

Not for you if: you need a stable contract. Marketplace actors change when their authors change them, and per-result pricing on the same actor varies by tier, so recheck it before you budget.

What about TikTok's official API?

For a commercial influencer product, it mostly is not an option. The Research API is limited to researchers at eligible academic and not-for-profit organisations, on a non-commercial basis. The Display API only returns the profile and videos of a user who has logged in and authorised your app, with no search.

That is why every TikTok option above, including ours, is either consent-based (the creator authorises access, which is the model Phyllo packages across platforms) or built from public pages.

Which influencer API should you pick?

Answer one question first: do you already know which creators you need data on?

• No, you need to find them, mostly on TikTok. Use an index with TikTok depth. Our TikTok API does this from $49 a month for 5,000 profiles ($9.80 per 1,000), or $199 on Agency with the app and MCP server included ($9.95 per 1,000).
• No, and you need deep Instagram and YouTube data too. CreatorDB if you want a published price, Influencers.club for enrichment across many networks, Modash or HypeAuditor if the budget runs to an annual contract.
• Yes, you have the handles. Use a scraper. ScrapeCreators if usage is bursty, EnsembleData if it is steady and daily, Apify if you want no code. Expect $0.001 to $0.003 per profile.
• Yes, and the creators will log in. Use Phyllo. It is the only way to get first-party numbers instead of estimates.

If you do not need an API at all and just want to search creators yourself, that is a different decision, covered in our roundup of the best influencer marketing platforms and on TikTok creator search.